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How Museums Make Meaning: Study Away J-term 2020 Posted by: Reesa Nelson / December 4, 2019 December 4, 2019 Museums collect and interpret objects, and the stories they tell with their collections articulate cultural identity and values. Based in the historic university city of Oxford, this J-term 2020 class will explore how museums make meaning. Students will study numerous examples of contemporary museum theory and practice, engage with local professionals, and participate in museum-based

and games! PLU offered the opportunity for me to simultaneously pursue my passion for engineering and my love of music, and I just could not turn down an opportunity like that. My PLU experience: Adventure, growth, friends, Frisbees, The Big Bang Theory, music, and trebuchets. Over my four years I have grown as a student, musician, scientist, human being, and global citizen. I have learned the value and importance of community from my friends and mentors in the alumni office, the physics

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completed in as few as 14 months, or over the course of 26 months. Classes occur in the evenings and are a mix of traditional and hybrid in design.2. Theory to Practice FocusUses evidence based, best practices that critically evaluate, integrate and apply current, primary research and established theoretical concepts. Coursework focuses on building an evidence-based practice through rigorous coursework applied to real-world situations. All students complete an applied project as part of the program.3

. “Our students get to benefit from course work that includes theory and application from the world’s largest and most prestigious stage,” she said. “I think students respond to that and appreciate it.” Hacker has worked with professional, international and Olympic athletes in a variety of sports, including Major League Baseball, the National Football League and the Women’s National Basketball Association. She has also served as the sport psychology consultant for the under 16, under 19 and under 21

lecturer was journalist Martin Jacques. Bell is a professor of ethics and political theory at Tsinghua University, in Beijing. His latest book is China’s New Confucianism: Ethics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society (Princeton University Press; new edition, 2010). Bell’s book addresses how communism in China has lost its capacity to inspire the Chinese. And what’s replacing it may very well be Confucianism. He’ll explore the reasons for the Confucian revival in China and discuss his proposals for a

University of Denver. Their interests include qualitative methods, deviant behavior, drugs and society, sociology of sport, sociology of children, social theory, work and occupations, and leisure. Together they are the co-authors and co-editors of numerous books and articles, including The Tender Cut, Peer Power, Paradise Laborers, Wheeling and Dealing, and Constructions of Deviance. The Adlers received the 2010 George Herbert Mead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Society for the Study of Symbolic

paper. Edgar received the grant for the research and recruited Ball and Juda to assist. “He was really working with us,” Ball said. “It wasn’t like he knew all the answers, which I thought was really cool.” The three researched a more specific ordering of natural numbers. The journal abstract reads, in part: “This paper provides an overview of the b-dominance order over the natural numbers, ℵ, using the base b expansion of natural numbers. … Here we discuss many ideas in order theory, including the

definition of hope that would bring enough clarity to the concept to then be able to describe clearly how hope can be nurtured in therapy. What started out as a journey to understand hope within the specific context of couples therapy, has developed into a theory of hope that has far-reaching applications. Definition and Foundations of Hope My research led me to a simple, yet comprehensive, definition of hope: “a belief and a feeling that a desired outcome is possible.” In addition, I identified four

appropriation by thinkers in Brazil and Argentina. DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Peace Journalism: A Foreign Perspective As an alternative approach in the reporting of war and other conflicts, peace journalism is the theory of expanding coverage of war beyond the principal combatants, including nonviolent options for resolving such conflicts. PLU students studied the concepts of peace journalism in the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with journalists who have covered conflicts in places such as Lebanon